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And utah. This hearing runs about three hours. [ gavel tapping ] the Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Were holding our second of four hearings on stabilizing premiums and insuring access to the individual Health Insurance market for the year 2018. Thats our focus, and we are delighted and honored to have the governors of five states with us here today. Thank you, gentlemen. We know how busy you are. Youve come long distances to be here, and we appreci...

These storms. Whats harder is the cleanup that follows. Harvey shows people are still good and caring and selfreliant. And people know at some time it may be their turn. Immediate Disaster Response on the federal and local level has been improved. But you dont need psychic friends to tell you that florida will be pummeled again. Our reliance on federal programs incentivizes developers to keep building in flood zones. The National Flood Insurance Program subsidizes policies which you would think ...

Afternoon. I and americas aviation reporter and im also on the board of governors here the National Press club. Sorry about that. Welcome to the National Press club. Our guest today is Lily Eskelsen garcia the president of the National Education association. I would like to welcome our public radio and cspan audiences and i want to remind you that you can follow the action on twitter using the npc lies. Thats an pc lie. For public radio and cspan audiences please be aware that in the audience to...

Testimony by state Insurance Commissioners and governors from across the country. Well start with shoons commissioners from oklahoma, washington, tennessee and alaska. The Senate Committee on Health Education and pensions will please come to ord order. In the individual Health Insurance market for 2018. We have five state Insurance Commissioners. Thank you for coming from long distances some of you to be with us to give your testimony on how to help the 18 million americans in the individual Ins...

Governors of massachusetts, montana, tennessee, colorado, and utah. This hearing runs about three hours. [ gavel tapping ] the Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Were holding our second of four hearings on stabilizing premiums and insuring access to the individual Health Insurance market for the year 2018. Thats our focus, and we are delighted and honored to have the governors of five states with us here today. Thank you, gentlemen. We know how busy you...

With the backlog forhose of drawing applyingor benefits. The challenges faces, since i have been chairman we have held 18 hearings including today on the Disability Insurance program. On one topic or another. Now thats a lot of hearings. But the Disability Insurance program is too important for Social Security not to get it right. Americans pay taxes on their hard earned wages for the promise of future social secuty benefits. When the worker retires, and is unable to work unable to disability or...

We are holding our first hearing on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to into intervals Health Insurance market for 2018. We have five state Insurance Commissioners. Thank you for coming from long distances to be with us to give your testimony on how to help the 18 million americans in individual Insurance Market. Manyve an idea of how people are interested in this, we invited senators who were not on our committee, which is about a quarter of the senate on this committee to come to a cof...

Consider friends and to i know to be problesolvers. My request this mmtee this morning is that you do two things. You quickly stabilizthe individual Insurance Market place. And that you undertake a serious effort to Work Together to address the cost of health care. Ande are good times tennessee. R Unemployment Rate is the lowest in history. We became the first state in the nation to offer free clearly college or Technical Schools to all of our citen our efforts per capita are ang the lowest in t...

Is where the storm is coming in atlanta. First a check to david of the weather. We have been watching irma to continue to fall apart over the last couple of hours its still packing winds about 60 to 65 miles per hour, but it is continuing to pass out of the region and starting to weaken through the next couple of days. I want to talk about what weve been seeing with irma here were going to start off by talking about what the damage currently looks like you can see what the pictures looked like e...

Before i begin, lets call the meeting to order. Before we begin to take just a moment to say that our thoughts and prayers go out to those who have been impacted over the past few days by hurricane irma. Of course, we continue to keep those suffering from the effects of Hurricane Harvey in our thoughts and prayers as well. These have truly been horrific events, and i hope and pray for the safety of everyone involved. I join with my colleagues in the commitment to doing all we can to assist our c...